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[ US /ˈkɫɔɪɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /klˈɔ‍ɪɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. overly sweet

How To Use cloying In A Sentence

  • There's also a cloying crème brûlée made with semolina, and a refreshingly chalky caramel parfait on a bed of thinly sliced stewed pears.
  • The honey means that the sweetness isn't cloying and the smooth flakes of almond give a rustic feel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
  • It opens up nicely in less than an hour and has the kind of jammy sweetness associated with Syrah - but not so much that it's cloying. Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • The beat lilts rather than swings, and there's a sweetness about the melodies that can become cloying if you listen too much.
  • The cloying heaviness of snacking on cheese instead of ginger snaps left me feeling dull and vaguely nauseous.
  • The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying.
  • I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
  • This jumbled exercise by Bulareyaung Pagarlava amounts to a shapeless sampler of miscellaneous moods and shticks, from the cloyingly cute to the utterly arbitrary. A Cautionary Tale in Dance
  • Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy. Times, Sunday Times
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